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<url>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
<title>Condor
<title_line>distributed resource management system for large heterogeneous
clusters of workstations
<abstract>
Condor is a distributed resource management system that can manage large
heterogeneous clusters of workstations. Its design has been motivated by the
needs of users who would like to use the unutilized capacity of such clusters
for their long-running, computation-intensive jobs. Condor has been ported to
most UNIX platforms and has been used in production mode for more than 8
years in our department and a wide range of other sites. 

Condor pays special attention to the needs of the interactive user of the
workstation. It is the interactive user who defines the conditions under which
the workstation can be allocated by Condor to a batch user. Condor preserves
a large measure of the originating machine's environment on the execution
machine, even if the originating and execution machines do not share a
common file and/or password systems. Condor jobs that consist of a single
process are automatically checkpointed and migrated between workstations
as needed to ensure eventual completion. 
<contact>condor@cs.wisc.edu
<environment>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/platform.html
<category>misc
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